The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1887-12-23

the foreign relations committee. The
House held no session. II
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
THE Vienna Pesfhsr Lloyd publishes re-
ports from Galican papers Of further
Russian military movements. and says: l
ssIf this Is her reply to the modification OF
Austria's policy. Russia will soon learn /
that Aus tria will resist provocation-"
JOHN MULLEN, who keeps small
general store at Huntington, w. Va. was
awakened bv some one entering the store
He took pistol, went down stairs. and,
seeing a man entering the window. fired
The ball entered the head Of the burglar,
killing him instantly. He proved TO be
colored man named Isaac Moore.
THE latest French Cabinet: NJ Tirard.
president Of the Council. Minister OF
| Finance and Minister Of Posts and Teie-
graphs; N. Fallieries, Minister Of Justice;
/ NJ. Flourens, Minister Of Foreign Affairs;
| N. Sarrien, NJ mister Of the Interior; -
| Dautreme, Minister Of Commerce; a. Lou
| bet. Minister Of Public Works; M.Demahy,
Minister OF Marine: NJ viette, Minister
OF Agriculture; NJ. Faye, Minister Of Pub
| lie Instruction; General Legerot, Minis
| ter Of War.
| GENERAL MASTER WORKMAN PowDERLY
| Il reported seriously III.
| The German Reichstag refused to IN
crease the tax on wheat and rye 70 SIX
marks, but adopted another proposal for
duty OF i've marks.
TIE trial OF Benz Z. Hopkins, late as
sistant cashier Of the Fidelity National
Bank. was commenced at Cincinnati on
the 18th.
Mr. GLADSTONE has written letter in
which he says the condition Of Ireland
has grown rapidly. worse under the pres
emit government.
RopKEr +. LKAMAx, . well-known BUSH
ness man Of the firm Of vsnAntwerP,
Bragg & Co. Cincinnati, died on the
| night OF the 18th after : weeks illness, Of
erysipeias-
THE funeral Of Arch Abbott Boniface
WINNER took place at ST. vincent's Alb
hey, Westmoreland County, Pa, on the
18th
4 CouNrrrxrs OF the Northern and South
| ern Presbyterian churches met on the
18th in Louisville, KY, to consider the
| subject Of union.
II JrssE RANDOLPH, yardmsster Of the
, | Baltimore & Ohio road - Bellaire, o., In
attendance on the United States Court at
| Columbus. dropped dead on the 18th from
heart disease, while engaged at game Of
billinrds-
ExcLrsH Catholics will present an ad-
I dress to Mgr. Persico, expressing hops
, that the Pope will be led TO assist Ireland
. ID obtaining self-government
GENERAL WILLoUGHBY, until recently
4 the Ambassador OF Madagascar in Lon
/ don, was convicted on his return TO Mada
Z rascar OF the embezzlement Of f12, 900 ant
: | sentenced to imprisonment for IN in
b definite period
: HENRY s. IVES. OF the defunct banking
!. frm OF Henry s. Ives & Co, was arreste'
' in New York, on the 18th, on warran
issued on acharge OF grand larceny. mad
| bv Julius Dexter, president OF the Cncin
% natl, Hamilton & Dayton railroad
VIZ. FrxcHUN, sentenced to be hange
y IN Rockingham County, Va, for the muir
e der OF his brother, Preston Finchum, ha
3 been respitcd until December %.
= HARRIS GoLDsTErS, Isaac Wolf an
se Adolph Silverstein, the latter Me-
n York detective. have been convicted {
smuggling tobacco into Liverpool, Fl
"a gland, inside Of cotton bales, and hne
Ie 5000.
" A DARING burglary was committed .
or the post-office in the village OF Norwood
DR. Ont. early on the morning Of the 10th, 2
st which . loss OF $1,000 in cash, 500
L
ID curities was sustained. The registers
lis letters were also taken. The burgi .
blew on the door Of the post Office safe
M get their plumber.
W THE American Club in London gave
4. banquet on the evening Of the 18th
~ United States Minister Phelps. Sir r
q. ward Thornton, formerly British Ninist
~ e Washington, presided
81 Bon CARUrHERs, the st. Louis Brown
~ great pitcher. put his name to : Brookly
Al. contract on the 18th, and thus put TO re
the most interesting question which b.
been before the base ball public for q
,og past few weeks. His salary d 5000.
~, The branch home for disabled volun e
-sn soldiers. provided for by Congress to
- established on the Pacific coast, has be
alyy located at santa Monica, Cal, fourte
49, miles from Los Angeles, on the ocean.
800 THREE THOUSAND tons o. coal We
a burned at the city water works In Mo
NJ trcal, Can, on the 18th.
A MEASURE for . loan Of Ef0,JO,O00
ion being railroaded through the Mexic
Ter Congress.
ted Hon. JAMES q. BLAINE and Levi
. Of Morton were received by the Preside
sral OF France on the i4th.
icrs COMMITTEES appointed BY the Norths
rty. and Southern Prcsby terrain assemblies
= 70 consider plans for . union are at work
y Louisville, Ky.
GExERAr. BouLAxGEE, In a publish
"a 4 letter, says: "France has greater need
the Generals than OF Deputies"
vcrx SKM.oYrrCIAL newspaper reports |
sent the relations Of Austria and Russia arr
and the most friendly character.
Mr.. LuELLA NORTH, aged -four years, igni
Jam, hcr clothing At the stove a. her home
ster Cincinnati, on the l4th, during the
hin, scnce Of her parents, and, before ass
Miss ance could reach her was burned
death.